Book Image

Android Development Tools for Eclipse

By : Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, Sanjay Shah
Book Image

Android Development Tools for Eclipse

By: Khirulnizam Abd Rahman, Sanjay Shah

Overview of this book

<p>The increase in Android's popularity with every passing day cannot be understated. This has resulted in a large programmer base willing to contribute to its success. Eclipse has a powerful IDE and has been adopted widely by programmers across the globe. The focus of ADT is to use existing familiar territory and ease development of Android applications. In this sense, ADT provides a one stop solution for Android application development.</p><p>Android Development Tools for Eclipse is a step-by-step guide that provides you with hands-on, practical, and to the point discussion and steps for using Eclipse tools for developing, debugging, and signing Android applications for distribution. It also teaches you to incorporate advertisements to monetize your applications. Every concept and its usage has been demonstrated in this book by implementing them via real world applications.</p><p></p><p>Android Development Tools for Eclipse starts with the installation of ADT, and then discusses important tools before guiding you through Android application development from scratch, demonstrating different concepts and implementation before finally helping you distribute your applications in the Android market. You will start the development of your first application, explore project structure, and add different widgets including multimedia ones.</p><p></p><p>You will learn everything about developing, debugging, testing, distributing, and monetizing your Android application using Eclipse ADT.</p>
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
9
Index

Graphical user interface designer

This is the interface designer. It functions as the GUI editor for controls or a widget to the application screen. There are three sections of this GUI designer, the palette, configuration chooser and the screen layout preview, as shown in the following screenshot:

Graphical user interface designer

The ADT's GUI designer

The Palette contains all the GUI controls (widgets) that can help us design the interface. The available controls depend upon the API level we choose during creation of the project. Some of the common controls are: button, text field, radio button, check box, multimedia controls and so on.

The configuration chooser

It lets you decide the appearance of your app view across different screen sizes, orientation, densities and themes.

The screen layout designer

It is a canvas to put things up and try out different designs. It is a designing workspace. Also, it provides a preview of how the screen may appear in a device.